January 2007

Well, this wasn’t our usual Monday.  We stayed home from orchestra due to too many sick little girls.  One sick little girl is too many, I know.  I’ve got 3 sick right now, plus a slightly congested baby.  We did bring Liberty and Hope in on Friday, the lungs were clear despite a very ‘wet’ [...]

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Finally got around to cropping and resizing some pictures…
Here’s one from the boys’ first Homeschool Orchestra concert (in November)
It was really fun to watch (for us parents anyway, I can’t vouch for the rest of the audience…)  They combined the ‘advanced’ groups into one giant orchestra and they played more complicated parts of Christmas carols [...]

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Webster’s New World Thesaurus on meek-
a. 1. [Humble] unassuming, plain, mild; see humble 1, modest 2.
2. [Long-suffering] passive, resigned, serene; see patient 1.
3. [Lacking spirit] submissive, compliant, subdued; see docile, resigned.
meekness, n, submission, mildness, timidity; see humility.
Serene, I like that one- it’s so peaceful, calm, and beautiful, a wonderful goal for the attitude we display [...]

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    I’ve been reading Homeschooling With a Meek and Quiet Spirit by Teri Maxwell again, it’s my first book for the new year’s personal enrichment reading.  I really like this book.  I appreciate the author’s openness  and honesty as well as her gentle way of admonishing us mothers to do right by our children in [...]

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    I got a call on Tuesday from Pediatric Home Service wondering about scheduling a visit to check up on the girls as it has been a couple of months since our last visit to Children’s Respiratory and Critical Care down in St. Paul.  They checked into it for me, and the visit is totally [...]

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    It’s Wednesday, I know… and what a Wednesday it has been.  I thought Monday was a long day…
    Monday was slated to be a long day, like usual.  We have orchestra practice and several violin and piano practices every Monday- it gets long, but it’s doable.  Well, this Monday everyone felt like sleeping in, [...]

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    I’m a firm believer in reading aloud with your children, believe me, I am.  We try to read a "chapter book" at the lunch table most days (and often the breakfast and supper tables too!)  But it doesn’t always work out, or even when it does sometimes my kids really enjoy even more story [...]

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It came up in conversation with a friend that I actually had 6 kids…
Liberty, nearly 6, delightedly exclaimed, "And you’re not even old!"
How sweet is that?!

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